Mycena viscidocruenta
Mycena viscidocruenta, "Ruby Bonnet" is a tiny Australia-NZ wood-rotting fungus commonly found in litter in forests, woodland and heath-land. It is blood red all over, and slimy. Caps to 20 mm, convex, depressed, striate, crimson red, viscid, shiny when dry. Gills pale red, adnate (joined to stem) to decurrent (runs down stem a bit); spore print white. Stem blood red, viscid, slender; cluster of white hairy mycelium at base. Doctor's Creek walking track, Reefton, 2008.
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